Board
Kunst-Werke Berlin e. V.
Kunst-Werke Berlin e. V. was founded in 1991 as the supporting organisation of KW Institute for Contemporary Art, and since 2016, it has brought together both of its institutions – KW Institute for Contemporary Art and the Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Art – under one roof. The organisation, which serves as an advisory body and is managed jointly with the directors of KW and the Berlin Biennale, is dedicated to promoting contemporary artistic practice.
KUNST-WERKE BERLIN e. V. has shaped the role of contemporary art in current societal discourse. Even today, exhibitions, commissions, and interdisciplinary events organized in cooperation with artists and other institutions respond to and further develop current tendencies in German and international contemporary art and cultural discourses.
KW Institute for Contemporary Art is institutionally supported by the Berlin Senate Department for Culture and Social Cohesion.
The Berlin Biennale is supported by the German Federal Cultural Foundation. The German Federal Cultural Foundation is funded by the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media.
Haegue Yang
Chair
Haegue Yang currently lives and works in Berlin and Seoul and teaches at Staedelschule in Frankfurt/Main. A prolific artist known for her versatile works ranging from room-scaled installations and performative sculptures, to paper collages and staged performances, Yang recently had solo exhibitions at institutions such as Kunsthal Rotterdam (2025), Hayward Gallery, London (2024), and Pinacoteca de São Paulo (2023). In 2018, Yang won the Wolfgang Hahn Prize at Ludwig Museum in Cologne and in 2022 was awarded the 13th Benesse Prize during the Singapore Biennale. Her work is represented in prominent institutional collections, including the Museum of Modern Art, New York; the Guggenheim New York; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; Centre Pompidou, Paris; Tate Modern, London; the Museum Ludwig, Cologne and Mori Art Museum, Tokyo.
Haegue Yang, photo: Cheongjin Keem.
Haegue Yang, photo: Cheongjin Keem.
Dr. Paula Macedo Weiß
Vice Chair
Paula Macedo Weiß has worked as a lawyer in São Paulo and Frankfurt am Main, where she acts as a cultural Articulator since 2011. Among others, she advised the Brazilian government on the cultural program as Guest of Honor at the 2013 Frankfurt Book Fair. Since then, she has been involved in exhibitions of Brazilian artists in Germany and is co-creator of the so-called ‘Paulskirche Network’, a German civil society initiative that aims to strengthen and innovate the democratic order in Germany and around the world. In her publications she explores Brazilian history and issues of democracy.
Dr. Paula Macedo Weiß, photo: Dominik Mentzos.
Dr. Paula Macedo Weiß, photo: Dominik Mentzos.
Dr. Katharina Kurz
Treasurer
Katharina Kurz is Co-Founder and managing director of BRLO, a Berlin craft beer brewery. She studied international business administration at the renowned EBS University in Oestrich-Winkel. After completing her studies, she spent six years in various positions at Bertelsmann, working in New York, Shanghai, Berlin and Paris before starting her own company. She is also the Co-Founder of FC Viktoria Berlin, a women’s football team in 2nd Bundesliga.
Dr. Katharina Kurz, photo: Maria Schiffer.
Dr. Katharina Kurz, photo: Maria Schiffer.
Members of the Board
Eike Becker
Klaus Biesenbach
Karen Boros
Frank Brauner und Detlev Krüger
Olafur Eliasson
Katharina Garbers-von Boehm
Simone Graebner
Katharina Grosse
Almut Grüntuch-Ernst und Armand Grüntuch
Markus Hannebauer
Erika Hoffmann
Gabriele Horn
Patricia Kamp
Eberhard Mayntz †
Timo Miettinen
Brigitte Oetker
Florian Peters-Messer
Pavlína und Petr Pudil
Sara Puig und Désiré Feuerle
Rivka Saker
Matthias Sauerbruch
Katharina Sieverding
Julia Stoschek
Agustina Strüngmann
Mariana A. Teixeira de Carvalho
Annabel Thompson
Diana Widmaier Picasso
